TechSoup Europe is shaping its education strategy. Thanks to European funds, partners can meet on a regular basis, exchange best practices in developing and implementing training programs and create new ones! DIGILEAD – Advancement of Digital Transformation of Social Sector with the Use of Open Badges Recognition System November 6 -7, TechSoup partners cooperating within […]
Taking place during EU Code Week (5 – 20 October 2019), Meet and Code empowers 8 – 24 year olds Europeans with 21st century skills they need to participate in tomorrow’s digital world. This year’s Meet and Code highlights saw more than 1,200 code events across 25 European countries, with female participation reaching 47 percent […]
Until September 8, nonprofits from 25 European countries may apply for Meet and Code grants. Get 300-500 euro and promote coding and digital skills! It is the high time to prepare yourself for upcoming European Code Week (5 – 20 October 2019) and prepare great coding event for participants aged 8 – 24! We encourage nonprofits to cooperate with teachers, […]
The TechSoup Europe network is expanding. Eight partners met in Warsaw on June 5-7 within the framework of the project “Digital Literacy Education Frameworks for Social Sector” (DLNGO). The Consortium comprises TechSoup’s partners from Austria (Fundraising Verband Austria), Bosnia and Herzegovina (Fondacija Mozaik/Masta), Spain (ILUNION Tecnología y Accesibilidad), Italy (Socialtechno), Poland (Fundacja Techsoup) and Ukraine […]
Stop for one second and think about all the things that are included in your morning routine. You wake up, prepare breakfast, brush your teeth, get dressed, leave for work. Now think again: how would it look like if all those things suddenly became impossible without the help of another person? For some people, this […]
Starting June 3, the initiative Meet and Code invites local nonprofits across Europe to apply for micro-grants to organize events that foster interest in and access to digital skills among young Europeans. Last year, more than 50,000 young people took part in 1,100 programming events. Grants of up to 500 Euro are available to bring […]
TechSoup partners from Europe active in digital literacy education exchange good practices on developing and implementing training programs addressed to the NGO sector. Les Ateliers du Bocage, ILUNION Tecnología y Accesibilidad, Fundraising Verband Austria, Fondacija Mozaik/Masta, Socialtechno, TechSoup Polska and GURT are part of Digital Literacy Framework for the Social Sector. Improvement of the digital literacy […]
Two campaigns ‘You are not alone’ and ‘Eco Roulette’ from Bosnia & Herzegovina are the first winners of #Tech4Stories project that aims to improve communication skills of nonprofits. Tech4Stories Tech4Stories is an information, media literacy and social campaigning program for nonprofits to increase their communication skills and power up their social impact. Together with our partners – […]
Are you interested in running a portal that help citizens directly participate in decision-making processes as well as to communicate with decision makers? Javna Rasprava is a website that facilitates discussion on ongoing legislation between members of parliament and citizens. Each law being processed in the parliament, as well as its key policies are described shortly and intuitively. […]
“How to use technology to make social projects more impactful?” was an overarching theme of the session called “Technology for social good (and bad)” on the second day of the European Foundation Centre AGA & Conference in Warsaw. Participants had a chance to learn about solutions, tools and trends in humanitarian aid, social inclusion, transparency […]
May 31 – June 2, The European Foundation Centre Annual General Assembly Conference took place in Warsaw. TechSoup and The Unit for Social Innovation and Research “Shipyard” organised Breakfast with change makers from CEE, during which invited activists from grass-roots organisations, local communities, citizens movements, and social hackers from CEE were presenting their work around […]
How to make government more open and transparent? How to fight against undemocratic governments? Is online “de-radicalization” possible and how to protect privacy online? How did social networks influence results of Brexit? How and why did Donald Trump win presidential election in the US? Did fake news, that were spread from this area, contribute to […]
#HackingPolitics is a meeting point for digital practicioners, creatives and political activists: participants are joining their forces and producing ideas, projects and tools to hack the social and political processes for the better. Event is part of POINT conference, taking place in Sarajevo from 27-28th of May, open to anyone you who thinks digital technologies […]
It’s hard to find good webinars addressed to the needs of civil society, instead of business. The TechSoup Europe Network takes the challenge to produce webinars addressing social topics with a local context and in various languages. In the end of February 2017, participants from 11 countries from our network practiced together various aspects […]
On Sunday, February 18, we met the winners of the Ministry of Data international open data challenge co-organised by TechSoup and GONG. Ten youth teams from four Balkans countries used open data to build apps to improve the lives of citizens and to make local government more transparent. The five winning teams received a total […]
